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KenigVovan

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Created:

Aug 21st 2025 at 4:10 PM

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May 15th at 6:04 PM

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711

Latest release (for Vintage Story 1.22.2, potentially outdated):
canspawnconditions_1.2.1.zip  1-click install

Adds two configurable spawn rules: a kill-based zone limiter that prevents overhunted areas from respawning the same mob types, and a safe radius around players that keeps hostile mobs from spawning on top of them. All entity groups are matched by regex — no hardcoded lists.

Features

• Kill tracker — the world is divided into zones. When a tracked mob is killed its death is recorded for that zone. Once the kill count reaches the configured threshold, further spawns of that group are blocked in the same zone.
• Safe zone around players — hostile mobs cannot spawn within a configurable radius of any online player.
• Population recovery — each in-game year a configurable fraction of kill counts is subtracted, allowing populations to recover over time.
• Per-zone overrides — override the kill threshold for a specific zone (e.g. make a single spot harder or impossible to deplete).
• Persistent data — kill counts are saved to the world file periodically and on normal shutdown.
• Server-side only for the spawn rules — clients don't need the mod installed. The admin GUI runs on the client only for admins who do install it.

Admin GUI

Press Ctrl+K in-game. Available tabs:

• Status — live metrics and a searchable list of every entity code that currently matches one of your regex patterns.
• Settings — sliders for the radius, zone size, save interval and yearly erase fraction. Changes apply automatically when you release the slider.
• Regex / Thresholds — add or remove entity regex patterns and per-group kill thresholds. Patterns that don't match any entity are highlighted.
• Zones — sortable, filterable table of every tracked zone with its kill count, applicable threshold, and a one-click clear.
• Map — pannable heatmap of kills for a selected group. Click a cell to select it, then set or clear a per-zone threshold override; right-click clears that zone's kill count.
• Actions — force save, apply yearly erase, and clear all kill data (with confirmation prompt).

Default thresholds

• wolf-* — 8 kills per zone
• hyena-* — 15 kills per zone
• bear-* — 1 kill per zone
• bell-* — 1 kill per zone
• locust-corrupt-sawblade — 1 kill per zone

Configuration

Config is generated at ModConfig/canspawnconditions.json on first launch. All values are also editable live through the admin GUI.

• Hostile_Entities — regex patterns for mobs blocked from spawning near players
• HostileNoSpawnAreaAroundPlayer — radius in blocks around each online player (default: 24)
• KilledCheckerEntitiesRegex — regex patterns for mobs whose kills are tracked
• KilledEntityThreshold — kill count per zone after which that group stops spawning
• KilledCheckerZoneSize — side length in blocks of each tracking zone (default: 1024)
• PercentOfKilledNumberToEraseEveryYear — fraction subtracted from kill counts each in-game year (default: 0.30)
• StoreCheckerDataEveryNSeconds — how often kill data is saved to the world file (default: 360)

Requirements

• VSImGui